Re: Anonymous blogging using Tor & Ecto (xmlrpc/wordpress/blogger/etc)

2009-01-02 Thread Holmes Wilson
Thanks for the suggestion. What's my best bet for using it on OS X? Can I use it with QEMU running a Mac virtual machine on OS X? I'm looking to create a work environment I'd be happy using every day, so switching over to linux or XP isn't really in the cards. What about the Parallels v

Re: Anonymous blogging using Tor & Ecto (xmlrpc/wordpress/blogger/etc)

2009-01-02 Thread Kyle Williams
Hi Holmes, You might want to take a look at Tor VM. It is a transparent solution for Tor that works with any TCP based application. http://www.janusvm.com/tor_vm/ - Kyle On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Holmes Wilson wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Does anyone know how to "torify" a desktop bloggi

Anonymous blogging using Tor & Ecto (xmlrpc/wordpress/blogger/etc)

2009-01-02 Thread Holmes Wilson
Hi everybody, Does anyone know how to "torify" a desktop blogging tool like ecto? http://illuminex.com/ecto/ http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Support http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/ Can I just point it to privoxy/blog.com and rest assured that all communication is anonymous through to

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Ringo Kamens
Also, make sure you have an application firewall to stop DNS leaks and plugins from taking your anonymity away.On 11/15/06, Jeffrey F. Bloss < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:RMS wrote:> > > If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending > > > your client's IP address to the web server. If

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Jeffrey F. Bloss
RMS wrote: > > > If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending > > > your client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using > > > NAT, this will obviously affect your anonymity. > > > > If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse, > > and you're conne

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Fabian Keil
RMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending your > > > client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using NAT, > > > this will obviously affect your anonymity. > > > > If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse,

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread RMS
> If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending your > client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using NAT, > this will obviously affect your anonymity. If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse, and you're connecting using the address "127.0.0.1

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:47:56, Fabian Keil wrote: If you don't enable hide-forwarded-for-headers you are sending your client's IP address to the web server. If you aren't using NAT, this will obviously affect your anonymity. If you're running Privoxy on the machine you are using to browse, and

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Ringo Kamens
Also, it would be more logical instead of having this convoluted camera setup (which can be defeated by editing the contents of the tape) to get a very cheap laptop to do all your questionable work on. Then, you can always have it with you to ensure that the data isn't modified. I would also like t

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread Fabian Keil
RMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the reply. I will consider using some of the mentioned > techniques, maybe a live-cd to defeat key logger. Remember that a LiveCD doesn't protect you against hardware key loggers. > I am currently using Privoxy with Tor on Windows XP to make my >

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-15 Thread RMS
Hi everyone Thanks for all the reply. I will consider using some of the mentioned techniques, maybe a live-cd to defeat key logger. I like to ask another factor that may affects one's anonymous status. I am currently using Privoxy with Tor on Windows XP to make my connection anonymous. As I do n

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-14 Thread Total Privacy
To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:33 PM > Subject: Re: Anonymous Blogging > > > > > > - getting a legal warrant to install a keylogger on your computer; > > - installing a keylogger on your computer illegally. > > > > Your security should be an ove

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-14 Thread Matthew MacGregor
mber 14, 2006 9:33 PM Subject: Re: Anonymous Blogging - getting a legal warrant to install a keylogger on your computer; - installing a keylogger on your computer illegally. Your security should be an overall matter, where Tor is only for your internet security. The approach for safi

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-14 Thread Total Privacy
> > - getting a legal warrant to install a keylogger on your computer; > - installing a keylogger on your computer illegally. > Your security should be an overall matter, where Tor is only for your internet security. The approach for safing the computer place differ according to the environ

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-14 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:14:38AM +0800, RMS wrote: > Dear all > > I like to ask what is the encryption level for Tor? I cannot find it > despite searching. Is it better than Gmail's AES-256 256bit? You can find full details about Tor's protocol at http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/tor-spec.t

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-14 Thread RMS
Dear all I like to ask what is the encryption level for Tor? I cannot find it despite searching. Is it better than Gmail's AES-256 256bit? Regards

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Jeffrey F. Bloss
Kees Vonk wrote: > This reminded me of question I was toying with the other day: If the > exit node of a circuit was in the same country as the computer of > origin, it would seemingly be relatively easy to match traffic send to > the circuit entry node with the traffic emerging from the exit node

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Enigma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Indeed, this is not very unlikely, I wrote a short article about how trojans/keyloggers might be used legaly by the government in the future: http://www.anti1984.com/en/articles/2.html Who knows, someday it might not just be used for the average crim

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> TOR is *not* designed to protect against a global passive adversary. > The US government is certainly capable of being that, now would they > put that much effort into you personally, who's to say. If the police forces of the country where you live wants to find out about your online activities,

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Ringo Kamens
I had asked that question before and somebody provided a script, search the archives. I would also like to add that the "great firewall of China" is not very centralized and as a result such an attack would prove fatal. Does anybody have any information about how censorship in other countries works

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Kees Vonk
Paul Syverson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:55:06PM +0800, RMS wrote: >> I am a political blogger in a sensitive country and I would like to >> try out TOR to make my blogging anonymous, as recommended by Reporter >> Without Borders (RSF) in their handbook. I understand that with TOR, >> ther

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Paul Syverson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:55:06PM +0800, RMS wrote: > > I am a political blogger in a sensitive country and I would like to > try out TOR to make my blogging anonymous, as recommended by Reporter > Without Borders (RSF) in their handbook. I understand that with TOR, > there is little chance of th

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'd highly recommend reading teh "Design Documents" at http://tor.eff.org/documentation.html.en TOR is *not* designed to protect against a global passive adversary. The US government is certainly capable of being that, now would they put that much effort into you personally, who's to say. T

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread xiando
> I am a political blogger in a sensitive country and I would like to > try out TOR to make my blogging anonymous, as recommended by Reporter > Without Borders (RSF) in their handbook. I understand that with TOR, > there is little chance of the government tracing my original IP > address when blogg

Re: Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:55:06PM +0800, RMS wrote: > I am a political blogger in a sensitive country and I would like to > try out TOR to make my blogging anonymous, as recommended by Reporter > Without Borders (RSF) in their handbook. I understand that with TOR, > there is little chance of the

Anonymous Blogging

2006-11-13 Thread RMS
Hi all! I am a political blogger in a sensitive country and I would like to try out TOR to make my blogging anonymous, as recommended by Reporter Without Borders (RSF) in their handbook. I understand that with TOR, there is little chance of the government tracing my original IP address when blogg